Dear John,
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Tell Lowe’s and Home Depot: Stop selling Roundup® and put the planet before Bayer-Monsanto’s profits!
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Lowe’s and Home Depot continue to sell glyphosate -- a.k.a. the active ingredient in Bayer-Monsanto’s Roundup® -- putting millions at risk from this toxic pesticide. Tell Lowe’s and Home Depot to stop selling cancer-causing Roundup.
Glyphosate exposure has been linked to an increased risk of cancer. Last year, Bayer was ordered by a jury to pay $2 billion to a couple who used glyphosate on their lawn for decades, and who both suffered from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. There are over 100,000 similar court cases pending.
Yet, glyphosate is still on store shelves! Right now, Roundup® can be found in Lowe’s and Home Depot garden centers. Lowe’s and Home Depot can play a vital role in ending the use of this toxic weedkiller, but the companies won’t do it unless they hear from you, John.
Take Action: Ask Lowe’s and Home Depot to remove cancer-causing Roundup® from store shelves to protect people and the planet!
Glyphosate doesn’t just harm people. The EPA recently found that it adversely affects more than 2,400 species and habitats. 93% of endangered species are at risk of being harmed or killed from glyphosate.
Roundup kills milkweed, the only food source for monarch caterpillars. The monarch population in North America has declined by 90% in the past 20 years alone as the use of Roundup has skyrocketed. Monarch butterflies could vanish within our lifetimes if we don’t take steps to protect them.
If you’re concerned about the wellbeing of butterflies, bees, and other endangered species, then message Lowe’s and Home Depot and demand they take Roundup® off their shelves!
Help save monarch butterflies. Message Lowe’s and Home Depot and demand they protect our pollinators!
Lowe’s and Home Depot could be leaders. By removing products that contain glyphosate from their stores and online, it would send a powerful message to Bayer-Monsanto to phase out this harmful chemical.
Lowe’s and Home Depot’s competitor, Costco, has already removed this toxic product. But other retail giants must act to protect our health and environment.
We know that Lowe’s and Home Depot listen to people power. In the past, they committed to stop selling plants grown with bee-killing neonic pesticides. Now, help push the companies to take another vital step and protect people and endangered species from glyphosate.
We need your voice -- Urge Lowe’s and Home Depot to remove Roundup® from their shelves immediately!
Standing with you,
Kendra Klein, PhD,
Senior staff scientist,
Friends of the Earth
